“The Craft” Wins 'Best of the Fest' at Minnesota Shorts Festival

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I’m happy to report that ‘The Craft’ swept the awards at this year’s Minnesota Shorts Festival, in Mankato MN this weekend.

As well as the play taking the award for ‘Best of the Fest,’ actors Travis Carpenter and Noelle Lawton were voted Best Actor and Best Actress. And in helming ‘The Craft’ to the top spot, this also marks director Maggie Maes' fourth year in a row of directing the winning play.

Congratulations and thanks to all three of them for their talent and hard work in putting together a show that the audience very clearly took to their hearts (and funny bones).

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  1. UnknownSeptember 15, 2016 at 6:18 PM

    Congrats! How I wish some of it could be on youtube so I can see it performed. :)

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    1. Andrew BissSeptember 17, 2016 at 4:26 PM

      Hi Jeanne! Thanks so much - lovely to hear from you. I wish I'd seen this production, too. However, there was and excellent production done in Australia a couple of years back, which you can view here if you wish - just copy and paste the link into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0TodxxlItQ&feature=youtu.be Take good care!

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  2. UnknownOctober 2, 2016 at 11:30 AM

    Thank you! I'm going to go watch it now.

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